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What are the best practices for HBase secondary index?

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Hi,

We need to index some columns on hbase tables.

Any recommandations or best practises using the secondary-index , please?

Thanks

Helmi KHALIFA

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Super Collaborator

here are some hints given: http://hbase.apache.org/0.94/book/secondary.indexes.html

In most cases you'll have to create a second index table.

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